About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The Brazilian Journal of Aquatic Science and Technology – BJAST publishes original research articles, review articles and short notes, in Potuguese and English, in multiple areas of science and technology that aim at aquatic environments.
Authors are invited to submit articles for publication in the following areas:
- Conceptual models to assess and visualize aquatic environments in global and regional scales;
- Dynamics of aquatic environments:meteorology, hydrology and geophysics;
- Aquatic pollution;
- Accidents in aquatic environments: prevention andmitigation;
- Chemistry of aquatic environments and toxicology;
- Global changes including land-ocean interactions;
- Engineering and technology of aquatic environments;
- Remote sensing, satellite data and image processing;
- Geographic Information Systems;
- Mathematics, numerical modeling and statistics;
- Water resources (including groundwater and water quality management);
- Aquatic biological resources (including wildlife and agricultural systems management) and use of aquatic environments (fisheries and aquaculture);
- Socio-economic interactions based in aquatic environments.
Peer Review Process
After the manuscript is submitted through our system, the Editor-in Chief and the Editorial Board will evaluate preliminarily whether themanuscript fits as a potential article to be published in BJAST.
If the manuscript is approved in this evaluation the authors will informed by e-mail and the manuscriptwill be forwarded to two peers for review. After the referees review, the referee's recommendation (approved, approved with minor or major modifications or rejected) will be informed to the authors. If approved pending modifications, suggestions will be sent to the authors via e-mail who must reply either accepting alterations or providing convincing justifications otherwise.
The Editor-in Chief and the Editorial Board will come to a final decision about the article publication in BJAST. Finally, if approved, authors will be required to submit through the system the final version of the text and figures, which will be confirmed by e-mail upon receipt.
Publication Frequency
Since BJAST is published only in eletronic format, individual articles are published as soon as they are ready, being added to the "current" volume's Table of Contents.
New numbers are published in January and July.
Open Access Policy
This journal offers open access to its content, following the principle that by offering free access to scientific knowledge allows for a greater democratization of knowledge.
